How many processes do you have running on start up.

I have 62.I feel thats too many but i can't stop anything since they are mostly drivers or stuff starting up.

 

Approx. 68.

In reality all these services really won't hurt performance except in rare situations. The odds of me running an application that uses 100% of the CPU (rare) at the same time all my other services combined want to use 2% of the CPU or more is extremely rare.

Same can be applied to an auto-update service running when I'm transferring large files, unlikely to happen, and when it does it barely makes a difference.

As for the memory usage, you can see how insignificant it is.

And the GPU usage is 0%.

 

63

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I've had the machine running 24/7 since October 12th, and I had 54 processes. After a reboot, that dropped to 46. My last XP system has 41 at boot... I'm actually surprised that those figures are so similar. I would've expected 7 to have 1.5 to 2 times more processes...

 

Both my Studio XPS 1645 and my Core i7 Desktop are running Windows 7, and both have about 45-48 processes running.

If you go to the blackviper.com web site, you can find good guidance as to which processes can be safely disabled. The 45-48 processes that I have running results from following their more conservative "safe" recommendations. The number can be reduced further by following their more aggressive "tweaked" or "bare bones" recommendations.

The main advantage that I see in running my computers "lean" is that it minimizes boot time. With my 1645, from the time I press the power button, it typically takes about 33 seconds until the desktop is fully loaded, and that is without a solid state drive. Before I disabled unnecessary processes and programs that were running in the background, it took about 45 seconds for the desktop to be fully loaded.

 

The only reason i ask is because even after your fully started up and let the computer sit there for a little bit (no hard drive light flashing). Some programs take a little longer to open than they used to back when i had a fresh install. Such as Chrome. It used to be an instant open ,now i hear the hard drive searching for stuff and what not and i have not modded my chrome at all in anyway.

 

With Windows 7 there's a lot of caching, superfetching, and similar stuffs going on.

Just as an example, if I restart my computer and try to open Firefox, it takes a while, maybe 7 or so seconds. But then if I close it and open it later, it might take 1 second to open. This is mostly due to the caching related stuff and not that there are other processes slowing it down. To prove this, I can restart my computer, wait an hour or so with not opening Firefox, and it will still take a long time to open since it isn't cached. I haven't used Chrome since the week it came out, but you will notice that most "big" applications (like web browsers, music players, MS Office) in Windows 7 have this behavior.

 

My suggestion would be, first, to uninstall Chrome. Then, I would search for and manually remove any components of Chrome that the uninstall left behind. Then, I'd run a registry cleaner like CCleaner and then reinstall Chrome.

 

for me i have 87 processes on startup. altogether, i would say from entering my password to hard drive "idle" (the so called idle after login) it takes about 3 minutes. this includes Outlook 2010 opening Exchange inboxes (2 inboxes) and 2 calendars, and MS Communicator. i consider this normal and "fast" considering that it used to take almost three times as long on my old notebook.

don't worry, your 62 processes is not bad, all things considered